Portrait of Alfred Flechtheim

Dix, Otto
Portrait of Alfred Flechtheim

1926
Watercolour and opaque paint over pencil on paper
22.3 : 15.8 cm (sheet)
Inscribed on the reverse in colour and pencil by Dr Hans Koch ‘O. Dix Entwurf zum Bildnis A. Flechtheim Düsseldorf Juli. August 1926’ and with Koch’s address stamp

Catalogue raisonné:
Suse Pfäffle: Otto Dix. Werkverzeichnis der Aquarelle und Gouachen, Stuttgart, 1991, p. 209, no. A 1926/11 (without illustration, with the note ‘whereabouts unknown’)

Provenance:
– Dr Hans Koch, Düsseldorf/Randegg
– Koch heirs, Upper Bavaria
– Remmert and Barth Gallery, Düsseldorf
– Ahlers Collection, Herford
– Karl & Faber, auction of 12 June 2015, lot 525
– Private collection, Germany

Exhibition:
George Grosz – ‘Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen’: Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Collagen 1908-1958, Hanover, Ahlers Pro Arte Foundation, 17 February to 17 June 2012

Price on request